Rick Lazio’s campaign pulled an unfortunate quote from Brooklyn Democratic Chairman Vito Lopez’s interview last night on NY1′s “Inside City Hall” that demonstrates not everyone has internalized the whole Andrew Cuomo-as-outsider theme.

Asked by Elizabeth Kaledin about the biggest “difference in style” between Cuomo and former Gov. Eliot Spitzer that might make the push for reform by the former more successful than what the latter tried to do during his truncated tenure in Albany, Lopez replied:

“You pass the bills in the Assembly and you pass them in the Senate and the Governor has to go along with it. That is how it works in Albany. No matter who you are, you are not going to change that.”

“And I believe Andrew knows that. He’s a product of Albany.”

“He worked closely with his father. He knows he has to sit down. And Shelly is very astute at what he is doing. So, I think it’s going to be an exciting year next year.”

Woops.

(Note: In case you’re confused…the quote was circulated in a press release from the Lazio campaign).

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